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  1. Re:Interesting if true on Stable Roentgenium Claimed Found In Gold · · Score: 1

    His method is posted and well documented so it shouldn't be too long before someone repeats the process to see if they get the same results. The only question is how much gold do you need to get enough atoms to show up in the scan.

  2. Re:Assange on Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too · · Score: 1

    But are they secret enough to stop Russia from planting say uranium flakes the company pickinic basket

  3. Re:Facts Fail on FCC To Vote On Net Neutrality On December 21 · · Score: 1
    Incorrect, the FTC really has nothing to do with this because it's dealing with Phone and Cable. This has been the job of the FCC since it was created in 1934.

    The stated purposes of the Act are "regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority heretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional authority with respect to interstate and foreign commerce in wire and radio communication, there is hereby created a commission to be known as the "Federal Communications Commission", which shall be constituted as hereinafter provided, and which shall execute and enforce the provisions of this Act.

    This is why the FTC never has anything to say when Phone companies merge in the US but the FCC must always give it's blessing. If I knew where to find them I'd point you to the FCC rules the allowed all the Dialup ISPs to exist in the 90's and the rule change that caused only 1 to 2 broadband providers to be in any area, but I don't have the time to search or the memory to remember the exact chapter and verse. The FTC has absolutely nothing to do with this issue ever.

  4. Facts Fail on FCC To Vote On Net Neutrality On December 21 · · Score: 1

    You are grossly miss informed. The FTC only deals with monopolies if they are not "natural" monopolies. Power, Water, Cable and Phone services are considered natural monopolies since it would be impractical to have multiple competitors in an area. Imagine having two cable lines to every house and in every city just to accommodated two cable providers or how many you'd need to satisfy the capitalist ideal of having a large number of competitors so people can pick and choose providers. Since phone lines were considered natural monopolies they were put under the FCC since that is it's natural regulating body for all Communication and Electronics the FCC has always been in control of them and not the FTC. The FTC actually has nothing to do with ether the Cable or Phone services since they are natural and allow the FCC and local governments to control them as they please. Good old "Ma Bell" was broken up by the FCC and is controlled and regulated by the FCC. If you can't grasp how from there the FCC is also the regulating body for the Internet in the US since the Internet is just a bunch of Cable lines, Phone lines, and interconnected electronic equipment meant and intended for Communications then you'll never understand it or even a more abstract concept like Net Neutrality. Next thing you now you'll be blathering about how the FCC shouldn't exist and how it should be your right to beam any old frequency into any airwaves as your freedom of speech.

  5. Re:I disagree on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 1
    What exactly has wiki leaks accomplished?
    Big scandles coming out of the wars didn't come from Wikileaks they came from soldiers and pictures that ended up in the hands of the Press.
    Wikileaks seems to be under the nieve 20th century notions about war and morality, or maybe he's fully aware and just exploiting it for the popularity contest people seem to like to have. Their war leaks revealed nothing of any major concern since the issues about torture in several prisons was already in public view. All they did was show one common truth about all war.

    War is cruelty. There is no trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over. Every attempt to make to make ware easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster
    William T. Sherman

    What they just released with the cables is nothing more then what people say behind someones back, and has just enough secrets to get people in some positions killed. If the US was really as bad as he wants to believe then he'd end just dead the same way a few reporters who spoke out against Russia in the past few years. Nothing like uranium poisoning to send a message to everyone. So is he anti US. Yes, without a doubt because if he did this to the other big guys on the block he's be dead by now. The US is just the only ones who would want to try him in court for his crimes rather then just out right kill him.

    So what's this latest release going to show? That banks are money grubbing evil $&(75 who stole our money because they nearly ran everything into the ground, and where to gun shy from the great depression to let it happen again without at least doing every insain plan we can think of to stop it? If so you'd have to have been in a coma the last two years not to know that one.
    If anything of any value the could have gotten anyone in serious trouble is in anything he is going to release again they would have been better to have at least tried releasing it to the authorities first. Some times it works some times it doesn't, but if you don't then when wing nut and screw loose does you've just about guaranteed that they will get away with nothing more then a bit of embarrassment.

  6. Only After Upgrading to the Cloud on DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing · · Score: 4, Informative

    The first attack took down the servers and kept them down until wikileaks upgraded to Amazons Cloud hosting. I'm not sure if any hacker has ever taken down one of the behemoth cloud hosting networks so this should be a good test.

  7. Bluetooth is Pagan not USB on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Measures were taken so that all the USB connections of his followers were exchanged for common connections and even the Bluetooth (sic), which according to Saldanha Welder is permitted, for "Blue was the color of the eyes of our savior Jesus Christ"

    Bluetooth is the one using a pagan blind rune as its symbol and they are all excited about using it. Come on, next thing you know you'll see christens celebrating pagan holidays.

  8. Re:IBM is the third Front in the War on The Coming War Over the Future of Java · · Score: 4, Informative

    What google is doing is very different then what ms did.
    MS made a Java Virtual Machine that would run java complied code and run custom MS only stuff like DirectX if you compiled it with there stuff and thus wouldn't work anywhere else.
    Google is using the java language to allow people to write android code that isn't java byte code at all but rather compiled to work on their OS. If you try to run java on an Android it won't work because it's not really a Java Virtual Machine sitting on it. It's the Dalvik Virtual Machine which isn't even using the Name Java to claim anything or imply that it runs Java Compiled byte code. Google is treating Java as if it were a Language and not as a platform which is what you have confused.
    People like you who say Google is doing the same s--- clearly didn't write Java code for the Sun and MS JVM back with Java 1.1, and don't understand what it is that MS did that hurt Java in the first place.

  9. Re:IBM is the third Front in the War on The Coming War Over the Future of Java · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apache will only break the JCP if they don't win. There is logic behind them trying to stone wall Java 7 and they want Java to be Free or the JCP to end.
    IBM is after the test kit to get the patent rights so that's how they get Java to be theirs if they win, but it requires a test kit.

    I prefer Googles route and just want to see the patents burn on a legal bon fire, but I'll go with Apache if they are successful too. IBM sounds too much like the friend of my enemy who looks poised to stab my enemy but might not as long as they get what they want.

  10. IBM is the third Front in the War on The Coming War Over the Future of Java · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google is trying to force the legal issue and end this with a court battle.
    Apache is trying to end it using the JCP
    IBM is trying to be all chummy and get Oracle to support OpenJDK

    If Google wins then Java is Free, if Apache wins then Java is Free, if IBM wins then Java is theirs.

  11. Re:Structural Unemployment for Middle Men on UK Games Retailers Threaten Boycott of Steam Games · · Score: 1

    It does not increase games sold to increase profits. It cuts out the middle man to increase margin to increase profits. Game Sales could be flat and Steam would still increase the publishers profits.

  12. Re:Save electricity, sure on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    Yea, but running up gold prices even more sounds like fun.

  13. Re:Change this to an inflammatory title on Apache Declares War On Oracle Over Java · · Score: 0
    This is hard to understand but let me ask you this.

    If the GPLv2 was enough why do you think Oracle is suing Google?

    Even though a significant portion of Java is under the GPL there are a number of things that are not and Apache has argued this before . For example Harmony cannot be used on mobile platforms and nether can OpenJDK because of the Field-of-Use restriction that Sun exercised using their patents. I suspect Google is going to make the argument that the Field-of-Use restrictions do not apply if you licence the product under the GPL. If IBM or Apache can get their hands on some compliance Kit that would give them right to use the patents then this would resolve all the Issues but would make Oracle a weaker player in the game.

  14. Neanderthal Hybrid? on Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neanderthal Lineage · · Score: 1

    If this is true isn't this more important the Idle Slashdot or am I missing something. If he really does have Neanderthal DNA then that suggests that at one point there was a Hybrid and that hurts and helps different theories about Human Evolution like the Out of Africa theory is hurt but the Multiregional model is helped.

  15. Half Full or Half Empty on The Galaxy May Have Billions of Habitable Planets · · Score: 1
    Given all the other factors in having Earth like life on a planet are mostly unknown or unknowable it would be more accurate to say that only 25% of the stars have even a chance of maybe having life or a habitable world if we import life. I think they author if the glass is half full type who sees the math as saying look at what we have and doesn't realize that he's making a formula that is meant to exclude not include. I'm the type who falls into the life might be so impossible the only way we exist is because the universe is so near infinite that as long as the possibility isn't zero it can happen at least once.

    Probability of Life = 1 X 10^-googol

  16. Re:Here we go again (SCO) on Oracle Claims Google 'Directly Copied' Our Java Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Too much infrastructure is tied into Java for this to kill it quickly. It will be a slow and painful death as people move away if they can.

  17. Easy fix? Are you sure? on US Supreme Court Expected Political Ad Transparency · · Score: 1

    That was basically the law before it was struck down. Free speech doesn't apply to only Citizens or Registered voters, and there is no current limit on donating since it was struck down as well as they saw it limited free speach. If you had 1 million to give to a candidate you could since there is no limit at this time. You're probably thinking of the old limit that was 2500. A real solution and probably the only one that would work is to go the route Japan did and ban ALL political ads during the election season. Force them to get votes by rally and in person hand shakes alone. It would require an amendment though and who in congress today would go for it.

  18. 60 days? Really on 2012 Mayan Calendar 'Doomsday' Date Might Be Wrong · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Given that the calendar is based on the winter solstice and the rollover occurs on every winter solstice. The Gregorian calendar is flawed in tracking the solstice because it floats just enough because it's not based on a perfect solar year but it's close enough. 60 days off is kind of absurd since it would put it no were near the soltices or equinox that were used. I'd believe that they had the wrong year 2011 vs 2013 or 2012 but wrong astrological event? hardly

  19. Re:My only thought when reading the summary ... on Can Apps Really Damage a Cellular Network? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Our network simple handle 'bad users' on its own. To much traffic was simply handled by throttling the user to a safe level when needed.

    This is what they are arguing for. They want to have the ability to throttle you in one form or another. They are basally making their case against net neutrality and against cell phones they don't have application control over. Though since they already allow android I don't see how they can stop me from writing my own app software now, but that's besides the point. You argued against them saying they should do what they are arguing that they want to be able to continue to do.

  20. Re:Imagine that ... on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    I'd give the old man the time of day if what he was saying wasn't verbatim the same argument against D&D in the 70's and 80's. His statement is clear technophobia and only makes him and his religion into a stereotype.

  21. Invalid Study on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    The only way to do this study would be to give someone "super powers". So who did they give these super powers to? Unless you give someone supermans powers you can't test to see if they are a supervillan or not. What they probably tested was how people respond when given things like affluence and political power, and yes those powers do make us evil since those require lies and deception in order to be powerful. Otherwise you just end up with another sparkely boy band. Sure they have influence and "power" but with out lies and deception its worthless.

  22. Re:What does this mean for Android? on IBM and Oracle To Collaborate On OpenJDK · · Score: 1

    If you think of Java as a language then you're right. However, Java is considered to be a platform now just a language. As a platform what Google is doing is very bad, but as a language it is very good. It basically boils down to java code written and compiles for Android cannot work or run on any JVM outside of the Android platform. Oracle is also a little bit upset that Google sniped some of the Java devs when they bought Sun and everything went into limbo. Probably comes down to that Anti Trust suit that the big IT firms were having about collaborating not to snipe each others talent so they could keep wages low.

  23. Not Sure on IBM and Oracle To Collaborate On OpenJDK · · Score: 1

    I'm not really sure if this is good or bad. It sounds like it couldn't get much worse. The cloud Java has right now is will it become a language ment only for interfacing with an Oracle system or will it be maintained as a language for things outside of the database world. IBM at least has a stake in it being more then just a lang to interface with one kind of system. That being said they can't be any worse then Sun was since a lot of the new functions in Java 6 and Java 7 came from IBM anyway. Heck just give it to Google since they seem more focused on making things run fast. Oh, Oracle is suing them? Well I guess Java Devs are screwed ether way.

    Sure, Not

  24. A date the will live in Infamy on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm To Launch Dec. 7th · · Score: 1

    It must be deliberate

  25. Nice, but on Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran · · Score: 1

    Given that Iran doesn't have a "Modern" designed reactor like the US, EU, or even Russia how can you assume they have one with the most rational safeguards? If memory serves didn't Russia go over and beyond with Chernobyl removing things like basic safeguards just to "Test" a worst case scenario. What if Iran just hasn't built them in because they think they are choose by god?